Every year, Cracking the Cover compiles a list of books that make great additions to your holiday library.
Browsing: Celebrating Diversity
Holocaust survivor and renowned psychologist Dr. Edith Eva Eger shares her harrowing experiences in The Ballerina of Auschwitz.
Witness the rise of Hitler’s Germany through the eyes of a twelve-year-old boy in Rise of the Spider, the first book in a new series by Michael P. Spradlin.
A soccer player is forced to rethink everything she knows about the sport in The Beautiful Game, by Yamile Saied Méndez.
Celebrate the lives and contributions of Black scientists throughout history with Great Minds of Science by Tonya Bolden and David Wilkerson.
Alice Hoffman’s When We Flew Away follows Anne Frank’s life from the moment the Nazis invaded the Netherlands until the Frank family was forced into hiding.
Three friends grapple with the fallout from a life-changing accident in A Constellation of Minor Bears, by Jen Feguson.
A seventh-grade Syrian American boy navigates middle school in Kareem Between, a novel by Shifa Saltagi Safadi.
An awkward teen struggles with mental health issues and self-doubt in Weirdo, a middle-grade graphic novel memoir by Tony Weaver Jr.
Learn the story of Puerto Rico’s first female mayor in Doña Fela’s Dream, written by Monica Brown and illustrated Rosa Ibarra.